*Official* Second Test at Lords

[Richard]

Warney bringing a bit of state bias to the table

22 already added by these two. The worst possible time for a big lower-order stand is the match's second innings.

 

[Top_Cat]

Forgot how smooth Haury looks with the bat, improved massively. Looks totally unfazed by the bowling.

 

[GIMH]

Get Swann on, he'll get rid of the tail

 

[Son Of Coco]

Broad's front arm does something unusual doesn't it?

Would like him to keep bowling for another 6 or so overs at least. He's bowling absolute ****.

 

[Prince EWS]

England should be giving themselves as much time necessary to bowl Australia out. Then they can bat accordingly knowing the pace at which scoring runs needs to be done. If they bat now they have to dilly-dally to a good total and then declare. That's likely to take more time than they would take if they were to bat last. And the more time this Test takes, the less likely Australia are to lose. Winning is not really in the equation for Australia - well at least realistically. So it variates between how probable England are to win and how probable Australia are to draw. More time taken = more probable for Australia to draw.

England don't have to bat particularly well. They just have to bowl well and take 20 wickets. The less pressure they have time-wise to do that the better.

Extremely well said; I couldn't agree with this any more if I tried. The weather forecast for the rest of this game is hardly perfect either so England need to look to wrap this up as quickly as possible. Batting again now would just be a waste of dry conditions; not to mention momentum.

 

[wfdu_ben91]

Gah, Broad opening again. I hope Strauss gives Anderson the chance to get his 5'fer and further nail down that knighthood of his.

Broad will take 4fer and I'll be getting a PM from King Pietersen about how great Stuart Broad is.

 

[GIMH]

thought he was gone then, didn't carry

 

[GIMH]

Broad will take 4fer and I'll be getting a PM from King Pietersen about how great Stuart Broad is.

Nobody cares about your planetcricket rivalries, bore off

 

[Richard]

The weather forecast for the rest of this game is hardly perfect either

It's not bad. It's not perfect, but it's certainly not predictive of more than 20-30 overs to be lost.

 

[Uppercut]

Extremely well said; I couldn't agree with this any more if I tried. The weather forecast for the rest of this game is hardly perfect either so England need to look to wrap this up as quickly as possible. Batting again now would just be a waste of dry conditions; not to mention momentum.

I had a bit of a rant last night saying this exact thing, but given how easy batting seems this morning, I'd be tempted to not enforce.

 

[GIMH]

Yeah, I don't think rain will be an issue

FWIW though I want the game finished tomorrow, cbf with being in work when we go one up in the Ashes

 

[tooextracool]

England need to open every single session of the game and the series with Flintoff IMO. The first few overs in a session set the tone, and to keep bowling Broad at the start really screws up the entire system.

 

[pasag]

England should be giving themselves as much time necessary to bowl Australia out. Then they can bat accordingly knowing the pace at which scoring runs needs to be done. If they bat now they have to dilly-dally to a good total and then declare. That's likely to take more time than they would take if they were to bat last. And the more time this Test takes, the less likely Australia are to lose. Winning is not really in the equation for Australia - well at least realistically. So it variates between how probable England are to win and how probable Australia are to draw. More time taken = more probable for Australia to draw.

England don't have to bat particularly well. They just have to bowl well and take 20 wickets. The less pressure they have time-wise to do that the better.

Spot on, let's just hope Strauss doesn't read this

 

[Jakester1288]

Siddle and Hauritz are both underrated as batsmen.

Siddle getting a few edges.

Australian.

I thought he was an Kiwi before coming to Australia.

 

[GIMH]

Good chance of Australia making the decision for us here

 

[Craig]

Twice the ball hasn't carried to the slips.

 

[TT Boy]

No swing = Wicket flat as. Should be good for the England batsman to make merry.

 

[superkingdave]

England need to open every single session of the game and the series with Flintoff IMO. The first few overs in a session set the tone, and to keep bowling Broad at the start really screws up the entire system.

Strauss is the only person who doesn't realise this.

 

[wfdu_ben91]

Nobody cares about your planetcricket rivalries, bore off

Pretty much, although they know more about cricket then you do, tbh.

 

[Uppercut]

If Harmison had taken the two wickets Broad did yesterday everyone would be creaming over his match-changing pace and bounce. Besides, Hussey and Katich might still be batting now if Harmy hadn't been playing because there's no way he'd have taken that catch at fine leg.